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Windows 7: How can a standard user gain access to an administrator account?

My Son And I Share A Laptop Running Windows 7 Home Edition , Am The Administrator And He Is The Standard User But He Keeps Going In And Changing My Account To Standard User And His To Administrator , Can Someone Tell Me How He Is Doing It And How Can I Put A Stop To It

My first guess would be that he knows your password, or have managed to install a keylogger program to find out what password you type. Check in Control Panel - Programs and Features if you see any newly installed program you don't recognize. And change your password. And do a full scan with your antivirus.

Some laptops have a finger scanner and come with software you can configure to use your finger instead of typing a password. Mine has this and I've set a long and difficult password so even if someone saw me typing it they wouldn't remember it. But with this feature I type this in only ONCE in the finger scanning software, and then I only use my finger. Works very well.

How can a standard user gain access to an administrator account?

Standard user unable to access Administrator rightsHi,
I've been reading several guides related to this issue but I'm stuck at trying to gain access to Administrator rights. There's a way to enable admin user from command prompt but I can't use backslash because my current language for non-unicode programs is japanese which I can't change since...

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and it stated that i didn't have permissions. (as it ran...

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Default User Account (Administrator) acts like Standard AccountI am using Windows 7 Pro 64x and apparently the default user account (Owner) that I use is not working correctly. Unless I have UAC set to Never Notify, I cannot open Control Panel or UAC again. When I try, I get the error message listed below. I have created a second user account as Administrator...

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Standard User Account Program AccessHello All, I have set up a standard user account on my Son's laptop, but there are software programs I would like him to have access to, without me having to log on with Administrator ever time.
When he try's to run said program it says Parental Controls has blocked this program the...

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User Gain Administrator accessHello,
I want to know is there any way that i can gain access admin for my User. It happen like this if i want to save any thing from browser or software i need to run as administrator only i can save it if i run normally (just click it) i can't save it. It the same if i download any file i want...